At the AI Sauna hackathon today, we experimented with generating alt text for historical photos using the LLaVA-13B visual LLM running on the LUMI supercomputer. The results were surprisingly good!

Project page: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/AI_Sauna/Generate_alt-texts_for_historical_images

Code/results: https://github.com/osma/llava-alttext-hkm

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